The regionalisation of the Central American legal market is plain to see in the Honduran chapter of the Latin Lawyer 250, where only two of the seven firms are still single market players: Melara & Asociados and Bufete Mejía & Asociados.
Crowell & Moring in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC, has helped Honduran renewables company Pacific Solar Energy obtain a US$93 million loan.
The Big Four, the commoditisation of legal services and encroaching global firms are threats keeping managing partners from Mexico City to Rio de Janeiro up at night. At a roundtable in San José, partners told Tom Muskett-Ford why firms in Central America, the most integrated market in Latin America, can face off some of those threats with a new wave of consolidation, which could see them expand beyond Central America’s borders to stay ahead of the competition.
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The Big Four, the commoditisation of legal services and encroaching global firms are threats keeping managing partners from Mexico City to Rio de Janeiro up at night. At a roundtable in San José, partners told Tom Muskett-Ford why firms in Central America, the most integrated market in Latin America, can face off some of those threats with a new wave of consolidation, which could see them expand beyond Central America’s borders to stay ahead of the competition.
Tickets are still available for Latin Lawyer’s 6th Annual M&A conference, to be held in Rio de Janeiro tomorrow, where a host of in-house counsel including senior figures from Ambev, Credit Suisse, Citigroup and Bank of America Merrill Lynch will speak.
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Alfonso Reymond Larraín and Rodrigo Riquelme Yanez
Reymond & Cía
Fernando Marcondes, Ricardo Medina Salla, Marlon Shigueru Ushiro Ieiri, Adriana Regina Sarra de Deus and Juliana Yumi Shiina Morato
LO Baptista
Claudette M Christian and Joshua B Press
Hogan Lovells
Anthony S Harrington
Albright Stonebridge Group
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